Sentences with phrase «weaker than that of a human»

The focusing power of the dog's lens is at least three times weaker than that of a human lens, while a cat's lens is at best half the power of a human's.

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If the framers of the Constitution had been more morally courageous in identifying slavery as an evil, or if the later compensatory amendment had rooted liberty in a common human nature rather than on weaker procedural grounds of equality under the law, then perhaps the expansion of protected classes and arbitrary rights would not have advanced so stridently.

Christianity is not an economic system, but it has a faith and ideal which puts upon any system the demand that it honor rather than exploit human personality, that it operate as a technique to provide for the material well - being of all the people and not for the exploitation of the weak by the strong.

You so - called «believers» are weak minded fools who more often than not use your gods to explain what you can not otherwise grasp or to justify your actions even when they fly in the face of human decency.

The disabled are treated as the weak to be served, rather than as fully committed, integral members of the Body of Christ and the human family; the specific contribution which they have to give is ignored....

Humans are born with more synapses than necessary; as part of the normal development process, weak and unnecessary connections are gradually eliminated during childhood.

What's key to the trick, say human echolocators, is sensing the strong early reflections off the walls, rather than the noisy, confusing mishmash of late - arriving, weaker echoes.

Furthermore, the stability of the retinal attachment is highly diversified among mammalian melanopsins, and human melanopsin possess a much weaker attachment than mouse one.

The current study found that mice meant to serve as a model of ischemic human heart failure (weaker blood flow after a heart attack) had higher levels of activated, pro-inflammatory macrophages, monocytes, dendritic cells and T cells trafficking between their hearts and spleens than did control mice with healthy hearts.

ALMA can produce a high - resolution image of the universe by receiving weak radio signals with a sensitivity 100 times higher and a resolution (corresponding to a visual acuity of the human eye) several tens of times higher than other existing telescopes.

Paleoclimate data for sea level change indicate that sea level changed at rates of the order of a meter per century [81]--[83], even at times when the forcings driving climate change were far weaker than the human - made forcing.

Having a mom with Hashimoto's hypothyroidism teaches children about the universality of human suffering and that sometimes we are all weaker than we'd like to be and need help.

They didn't have any knowledge of nutrition, they weren't able to eat nutritious, calorie dense food whenever they wanted due to the absence of agriculture, and their immune systems were likely weaker than ours (living together in large numbers placed enormous selective pressure on our early agricultural ancestors to develop strong immune systems, keep in mind that early human civilizations did not have indoor plumbing... so they were sometimes exposed to fecal matter both from fellow humans and from livestock and they didn't have the kinds of disinfectants and anti-biotics we have today,) so for them to have serious health complications makes perfect sense, nature can be very harsh and doesn't care how long its been since your last meal or what your calorie and micro nutrient needs are... a lot of people died at very young ages back then simply because they got sick and didn't have proper medical treatment or due to malnutrition or starvation.

Technically and dramatically much weaker than most slick science - fiction films, Soylent Green is still more realistic on one terrifying point: the ecology will deteriorate, through misuse and overuse of plant and animal life as well as overpopulation, much sooner than human technology and architecture will advance to accommodate it and create the oppressive - but - neat world of domes, interplanetary travel and multi-leveled cities that characterize most movies of the s.f. genre.

As a result, the definition of the companion animal breed is a breed whose members can not perform any utilitarian function for themselves or their human owners — they're simply too weak to pull their own weight anymore — and they also suffer from a much wider array of painful maladies than their larger cousins; painful and unnatural medical problems like the tendency of certain joints like knees and hips to pop out of their sockets far too easily, among many others.